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How to GetForegroundWindow From Path Program

When I use Process.Start(Path); Sometimes the program does not appear in the foreground, but it does appear in the taskbar To solve this problem, I must use the "AutoItX" reference to show the program in the foreground using GetForegroundWindow(), But how can I get GetForegroundWindow using Path? ("C:/Users/.../name_program/")
Update
my question is how can I get GetForegroundWindow From Path.
I appreciate any help, thank you

I can't test it, but it should work:
private const int ALT = 0xA4;
private const int EXTENDEDKEY = 0x1;
private const int KEYUP = 0x2;
private const int SHOW_MAXIMIZED = 3;
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
private static extern IntPtr GetForegroundWindow();
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
private static extern void keybd_event(byte bVk, byte bScan, uint dwFlags, int dwExtraInfo);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
private static extern bool SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr hWnd);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
private static extern bool ShowWindow(IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow);
public static void ActivateWindow(IntPtr mainWindowHandle)
{
// Guard: check if window already has focus.
if (mainWindowHandle == GetForegroundWindow()) return;
// Show window maximized.
ShowWindow(mainWindowHandle, SHOW_MAXIMIZED);
// Simulate an "ALT" key press.
keybd_event((byte)ALT, 0x45, EXTENDEDKEY | 0, 0);
// Simulate an "ALT" key release.
keybd_event((byte)ALT, 0x45, EXTENDEDKEY | KEYUP, 0);
// Show window in forground.
SetForegroundWindow(mainWindowHandle);
}
With this you can create the process and then activate it:
var proc = Process.Start(path);
proc.WaitForInputIdle();
ActivateWindow(proc.MainWindowHandle);

Why does my Modal WPF dialog slip behind MS Word

I have a MS Word Application Add-in written with VSTO. It contains a button used to create new Letter documents. When pressed a document is instantiated, a WPF dialog is displayed to capture information and then the information is inserted into the document.
On rare occasions, the WPF dialog slips behind MS Word. I then have to kill the Winword.exe process because the dialog is Modal.
I use the following code for my WPF dialog. The OfficeDialog sub class is used to make the dialog look like a MS-Word dialog.
var view = new LetterDetailsView(ViewModel);
view.ShowDialog();
public class OfficeDialog : Window
{
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern int GetWindowLong(IntPtr hwnd, int index);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern int SetWindowLong(IntPtr hwnd, int index, int newStyle);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern bool SetWindowPos(IntPtr hwnd, IntPtr hwndInsertAfter, int x, int y, int width, int height, uint flags);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hwnd, uint msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam);
const int GWL_EXSTYLE = -20;
const int WS_EX_DLGMODALFRAME = 0x0001;
const int SWP_NOSIZE = 0x0001;
const int SWP_NOMOVE = 0x0002;
const int SWP_NOZORDER = 0x0004;
const int SWP_FRAMECHANGED = 0x0020;
const uint WM_SETICON = 0x0080;
const int ICON_SMALL = 0;
const int ICON_BIG = 1;
public OfficeDialog()
{
this.ShowInTaskbar = false;
}
public new void ShowDialog()
{
try
{
var helper = new WindowInteropHelper(this);
using (Process currentProcess = Process.GetCurrentProcess())
helper.Owner = currentProcess.MainWindowHandle;
base.ShowDialog();
}
catch (System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception ex)
{
Message.LogWarning(ex);
var helper = new WindowInteropHelper(this);
using (Process currentProcess = Process.GetCurrentProcess())
helper.Owner = currentProcess.MainWindowHandle;
base.ShowDialog();
}
}
protected override void OnSourceInitialized(EventArgs e)
{
base.OnSourceInitialized(e);
RemoveIcon(this);
HideMinimizeAndMaximizeButtons(this);
}
public static void HideMinimizeAndMaximizeButtons(Window window)
{
const int GWL_STYLE = -16;
IntPtr hwnd = new WindowInteropHelper(window).Handle;
long value = GetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_STYLE);
SetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_STYLE, (int)(value & -131073 & -65537));
}
public static void RemoveIcon(Window w)
{
// Get this window's handle
IntPtr hwnd = new WindowInteropHelper(w).Handle;
// Change the extended window style to not show a window icon
int extendedStyle = OfficeDialog.GetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE);
OfficeDialog.SetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, extendedStyle | WS_EX_DLGMODALFRAME);
// reset the icon, both calls important
OfficeDialog.SendMessage(hwnd, WM_SETICON, (IntPtr)ICON_SMALL, IntPtr.Zero);
OfficeDialog.SendMessage(hwnd, WM_SETICON, (IntPtr)ICON_BIG, IntPtr.Zero);
// Update the window's non-client area to reflect the changes
OfficeDialog.SetWindowPos(hwnd, IntPtr.Zero, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_FRAMECHANGED);
}
static void SetCentering(Window win, IntPtr ownerHandle)
{
bool isWindow = IsWindow(ownerHandle);
if (!isWindow) //Don't try and centre the window if the ownerHandle is invalid. To resolve issue with invalid window handle error
{
//Message.LogInfo(string.Format("ownerHandle IsWindow: {0}", isWindow));
return;
}
//Show in center of owner if win form.
if (ownerHandle.ToInt32() != 0)
{
var helper = new WindowInteropHelper(win);
helper.Owner = ownerHandle;
win.WindowStartupLocation = WindowStartupLocation.CenterOwner;
}
else
win.WindowStartupLocation = WindowStartupLocation.CenterOwner;
}
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
static extern bool IsWindow(IntPtr hWnd);
}

A modal dialog not being on top is the result of an incorrectly set owner. You already set the owner to the MainWindowHandle of the current process; however, in particular with multiple Word documents open, this might not be what you want.
I'd suggest to rely on the following property (introduced with Word 2013):
document.ActiveWindow.HWnd;
Apart from that there should not be the need to kill the Word process. It should be sufficient to minimize all windows (e.g. by pressing Windows Key + M)

How do I embed tabtip.exe inside windows

I'm trying to embed the osk in a wpf window or a user control and I've found the code below and it's working for notepad but for tabtip.exe, it's saying that it doesn't have a graphical interface??
WaitForInputIdle failed. This could be because the process does not have a graphical interface.
I tried letting it sleep for awhile instead of calling waitForInputIdle method but it throws another exception:
Process has exited, so the requested information is not available.
But in my task manager, I can still see TabTip.exe running.
namespace WpfApplication1
{
/// <summary>
/// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml
/// </summary>
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
private System.Windows.Forms.Panel _panel;
private Process _process;
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
_panel = new System.Windows.Forms.Panel();
windowsFormsHost1.Child = _panel;
}
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
private static extern int SetWindowLong(IntPtr hWnd, int nIndex, int dwNewLong);
[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
private static extern int GetWindowLong(IntPtr hWnd, int nIndex);
[DllImport("user32")]
private static extern IntPtr SetParent(IntPtr hWnd, IntPtr hWndParent);
[DllImport("user32")]
private static extern bool SetWindowPos(IntPtr hWnd, IntPtr hWndInsertAfter, int X, int Y, int cx, int cy, int uFlags);
private const int SWP_NOZORDER = 0x0004;
private const int SWP_NOACTIVATE = 0x0010;
private const int GWL_STYLE = -16;
private const int WS_CAPTION = 0x00C00000;
private const int WS_THICKFRAME = 0x00040000;
protected override void OnClosing(System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs e)
{
base.OnClosing(e);
if (_process != null)
{
_process.Refresh();
_process.Close();
}
}
private void ResizeEmbeddedApp()
{
if (_process == null)
return;
SetWindowPos(_process.MainWindowHandle, IntPtr.Zero, 0, 0, (int)_panel.ClientSize.Width, (int)_panel.ClientSize.Height, SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_NOACTIVATE);
}
protected override Size MeasureOverride(Size availableSize)
{
Size size = base.MeasureOverride(availableSize);
ResizeEmbeddedApp();
return size;
}
private void button1_Click_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
button1.Visibility = Visibility.Hidden;
ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo("C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\microsoft shared\\ink\\TabTip.exe");
_process = Process.Start(psi);
Thread.Sleep(500);
//_process.WaitForInputIdle();
SetParent(_process.MainWindowHandle, _panel.Handle);
// remove control box
int style = GetWindowLong(_process.MainWindowHandle, GWL_STYLE);
style = style & ~WS_CAPTION & ~WS_THICKFRAME;
SetWindowLong(_process.MainWindowHandle, GWL_STYLE, style);
// resize embedded application & refresh
ResizeEmbeddedApp();
}
}
}
Edit: Inspired by rene's comment, I've tried to obtain the window ptr as below and used spy++ to verify that the address that FindWindow gives is pointing to the correct window, but it's still not moving:
IntPtr KeyboardWnd = FindWindow("IPTip_Main_Window", null);
int style = GetWindowLong(KeyboardWnd, GWL_STYLE);
style = style & ~WS_CAPTION & ~WS_THICKFRAME;
SetWindowLong(KeyboardWnd, GWL_STYLE, style);
SetWindowPos(KeyboardWnd, IntPtr.Zero, 0, 0, (int)_panel.ClientSize.Width, (int)_panel.ClientSize.Height, SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_NOACTIVATE);
Edit 2: My first thought was that tab tip couldn't be resized, but then I noticed a behavior when I try to move the window across two different screen, it'll resize to fit the screen size, so I'm sure there must be a way to resize, so I started spy++(x64) to check :
Edit 3: after tinkering abit with user32 api and no progress, I've tried to use a memory scanner to scan for the x and y position of tabtip and change it, however, it's not refreshing until a repaint is triggered, I'm wondering the feasibility going down that path.

Can you try to run your handle code in STA thread? I had a similar issue with native window, which I had resolved using STA thread.
var thread = new Thread(() => {
// Your code here
});
thread.TrySetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
thread.Start();

I had a similar problem, and the reason I had it was that I started a program that needed to be run by an administrator with a non-administrative program, and it would pop up with WaitForInputIdle failed. This could be because the process does not have a graphical interface, so I assume you try starting your program with an administrator

How to get ScrollBar positions of Notepad inside my form

I have a problem with getting scrollbar positions. Is it possible to get the scrollbar position of another process for example Notepad. I wrote small app where i tested and always get 0 0 as a position of scrollbars.
[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
public static extern int GetScrollPos(IntPtr hWnd, int nBar);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr SetParent(IntPtr hWndChild, IntPtr hWndNewParent);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern int SetWindowLong(IntPtr hWnd, int nIndex, int dwNewLong);
[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
private static extern bool MoveWindow(IntPtr hwnd, int x, int y, int cx, int cy, bool repaint);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr SetActiveWindow(IntPtr hWnd);
[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
static extern void SwitchToThisWindow(IntPtr hWnd, bool fAltTab);
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.SuspendLayout();
Process notepad = new Process();
ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo(#"c:\list1.txt");
psi.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Normal;
notepad.StartInfo = psi;
notepad.Start();
this.ResumeLayout();
notepad.WaitForInputIdle(3000);
IntPtr old = SetParent(notepad.MainWindowHandle, this.Handle);
SetWindowLong(notepad.MainWindowHandle, GWL_STYLE, WS_VISIBLE + WS_MAXIMIZE);
MoveWindow(notepad.MainWindowHandle, 100, 100, 400, 400, true);
SetActiveWindow(notepad.MainWindowHandle);
SwitchToThisWindow(notepad.MainWindowHandle, true);
}
I have button which send PGDN event to notepad and it works great but after pgdn event position of scrollbar also is 0 0
private void PGDN_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Process[] procs = Process.GetProcessesByName("Notepad");
IntPtr hwnd = procs[0].MainWindowHandle;
SetActiveWindow(hwnd);
SwitchToThisWindow(hwnd, true);
Thread.Sleep(2000);
SendKeys.SendWait("{PGDN}");
Thread.Sleep(2000);
label1.Text = "OK";
label1.Text = "";
label1.Text = HScrollPos().ToString() + " " + VScrollPos().ToString(); }
Here are the HScrollPos and VScrollPos functions :
public int VScrollPos()
{
Process[] procs = Process.GetProcessesByName("Notepad");
IntPtr hwnd = procs[0].MainWindowHandle;
if (procs.Length != 0)
{
return GetScrollPos(hwnd , SB_VERT);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("Notepad Nor Running");
return 0;
}
}
public int HScrollPos()
{
Process[] procs = Process.GetProcessesByName("Notepad");
IntPtr hwnd = procs[0].MainWindowHandle;
if (procs.Length != 0)
{
return GetScrollPos(hwnd , SB_HORZ);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("Notepad Nor Running");
return 0;
}
}
Maybe there is another way to get Scrollbar Position of another process/window in windows? Please Help. Thx for granted.
And here is the Working Code based on Answer. Thx
[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
private static extern IntPtr FindWindow(string lpClassName, string lpWindowName);
[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
static extern IntPtr FindWindowEx(IntPtr hwndParent, IntPtr hwndChildAfter, string lpszClass, string lpszWindow);
private void button4_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string lpszParentClass = "Notepad";
string lpszParentWindow = "Untitled - Notepad";
string lpszClass = "Edit";
IntPtr ParenthWnd = new IntPtr(0);
IntPtr hWnd = new IntPtr(0);
ParenthWnd = FindWindow(lpszParentClass, lpszParentWindow);
if (ParenthWnd.Equals(IntPtr.Zero))
MessageBox.Show("Notepad Not Running");
else
{
hWnd = FindWindowEx(ParenthWnd, hWnd, lpszClass, "");
if (hWnd.Equals(IntPtr.Zero))
MessageBox.Show("Notepad doesn't have an edit component ?");
else
{
MessageBox.Show("Notepad Window: " + ParenthWnd.ToString());
MessageBox.Show("Edit Control: " + hWnd.ToString());
}
}
SetActiveWindow(ParenthWnd);
label5.Text = GetScrollPos(hWnd, SB_VERT) + " " + GetScrollPos(hWnd, SB_HORZ);
}

I suspect the problem is that you are using the main window handle, you should be using the handle of the Edit control, which is a child of the main window.
Using the main window hwnd you can enumrate the child windows to find the hWnd of the edit control and then use that hWnd in your call to get the scroll bar position.
SendKeys is working because it is sending the key stroke to the window that has input focus which in this case is the Edit control.
Here is an answer to a question I provided sometime back that will help with the interop for EnumChildWindows if you need, there is a lot more there but it might help.

Hide Title Bar of Program using API

Its possible remove a window console title bar using c# and windows api, if yes howto? Please.

This simple app hides and shows the title bar of the console that it's in. It changes the console title to a guid momentarily to find the window handle. Afterwards it uses ToggleTitleBar to show or hide using the found handle.
public class Program
{
public static void ToggleTitleBar(long hwnd, bool showTitle)
{
long style = GetWindowLong(hwnd, -16L);
if (showTitle)
style |= 0xc00000L;
else
style &= -12582913L;
SetWindowLong(hwnd, -16L, style);
SetWindowPos(hwnd, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0x27L);
}
public static void Main()
{
Guid guid = Guid.NewGuid();
string oldTitle = Console.Title;
Console.Title = guid.ToString();
int hwnd = FindWindow("ConsoleWindowClass", guid.ToString());
Console.Title = oldTitle;
Console.WriteLine("Press enter to hide title");
Console.ReadLine();
ToggleTitleBar(hwnd, false);
Console.WriteLine("Press enter to show title");
Console.ReadLine();
ToggleTitleBar(hwnd, true);
Console.WriteLine("Press enter to exit");
Console.ReadLine();
}
[DllImport("user32", EntryPoint = "GetWindowLongA")]
public static extern long GetWindowLong(long hwnd, long nIndex);
[DllImport("user32", EntryPoint = "SetWindowLongA")]
public static extern long SetWindowLong(long hwnd, long nIndex, long dwNewLong);
[DllImport("user32")]
public static extern long SetWindowPos(long hwnd, long hWndInsertAfter, long x, long y, long cx, long cy,
long wFlags);
[DllImport("User32.dll")]
public static extern int FindWindow(string lpClassName, string lpWindowName);
}

Edit: Sorry, I see that you're looking for a solution for a console application. No, there is no way I know of to do what you're trying to do. It is also not simple to host a console in a WinForms application.
However, if you ARE using a WinForms application or WPF, consider the following.
this.ControlBox = false;
this.Text = string.Empty;
Otherwise, you could set FormBorderStyle to None.
You can also hide the program from the task bar if you need to.
this.ShowInTaskBar = false;

This will probably not work. In theory you could use something like this:
HWND handle = FindWindow(L"ConsoleWindowClass", NULL);
LONG style = GetWindowLong(handle, GWL_STYLE);
style = style & ~WS_CAPTION;
SetWindowLong(handle, GWL_STYLE, style);
This will work for every window except console windows. SetWindowLong returns 0, and GetLastError returns 5 (Access denied), even if you run the application as administrator.

I have some (very) old code I think somehow related; I'd to display Microsoft Excel inside a winform application:
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern int FindWindow(string lpClassName, string lpWindowName);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern int SetParent(int hWndChild, int hWndNewParent);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern int MoveWindow(
int hWnd, int x, int y,
int nWidth, int nHeight, int bRepaint);
//
private static int hwnExcel = 0;
private System.Windows.Forms.PictureBox picContainer;
// ...
private void Principal_Resize(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
picContainer.Width = this.Width - 8;
picContainer.Height = this.Height - 45;
User32.SetParent(hwnExcel, 0);
User32.MoveWindow(
hwnExcel, 0, 0,
picContainer.Width, picContainer.Height, 1);
}

use FindWindow to get the handle of the console window then SetWindowLong to modify his properties